Hacker News: adrianpike

New comment by adrianpike in "10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026"

adrianpike — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:21:12 +0000

We've done that at a few places I've been at - it's tricky because if the failure is too short its just annoying toil, but if it's too long there's risk of losing context and having to remember what the heck we were thinking.

Overall it's still net positive for me in certain cases of enforcing things to be temporary, or at least revisited.

New comment by adrianpike in "Lunar Flyby"

adrianpike — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:32:04 +0000

There's supposed to be a 260 megabit link: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/

Maybe it's not operating as described yet?

New comment by adrianpike in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

adrianpike — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:31:21 +0000

Yes, with the caveat that you'll need decent line of sight to it.

New comment by adrianpike in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

adrianpike — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:02:30 +0000

Which adblocker are you currently using? The arms race is getting pretty tiring...

New comment by adrianpike in "OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios"

adrianpike — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:41:56 +0000

Yes and yes, we've used it for civilian Search & Rescue in tandem with CalTopo.

New comment by adrianpike in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

adrianpike — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:47:32 +0000

We did sailing charters growing up and had one of these on the boat, I was in charge of it and the sound & feel of the CH-CHUNK is seared into my memories like nothing else. We never got any declines, but I always wondered how that reconciliation process actually worked out.

New comment by adrianpike in "Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages"

adrianpike — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:00:10 +0000

Super neat - I did something similar on a lark to enable useful "web browsing" over 1200 baud packet - I have Starlink back at my camp but might be a few miles away, so as long as I can get line of sight I can Google up stuff, albeit slow. Worked well but I never really productionalized it beyond some weekend tinkering.

New comment by adrianpike in "Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt"

adrianpike — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:39:51 +0000

I guess you got me as either an easily nerd-sniped plebe or an Old — I use it in all my discourse when I'd normally take a speaking pause.

New comment by adrianpike in "Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history"

adrianpike — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:30:57 +0000

Depending on your perspective, that's either very concerning or a great business opportunity for this decade's Heroku to enter the fray.

New comment by adrianpike in "Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)"

adrianpike — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:25:33 +0000

This is very accurate - microservices can be great as a forcing function to revisit your architectural boundaries, but if all you do is add a network hop and multiple components to update when you tweak a data model, all you'll get is headcount sprawl and deadlock to the moon.

I'm a huge fan of migrating to microservices as a secondary outcome of revisiting your component boundaries, but just moving to separate repos & artifacts so we can all deploy independently is a recipe for pain.

New comment by adrianpike in "How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence"

adrianpike — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 03:26:07 +0000

Same dream here - they work very interesting problems at very interesting scale, but I can see 3-4x the comp while working from anywhere? Not even a chance. I do sometimes fantasize about making a career shift when the cash comp isn't that important to me and the kids are out of the house, but as of now I value afternoon coffee breaks with my kids just too darn much.

New comment by adrianpike in "Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes"

adrianpike — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:02:23 +0000

I'm also super excited to see more on this, it's been living rent free in my head for a long time. I played around with keypress extraction from sound recordings a couple decades ago in college, and it was remarkably straightforward to extract keypresses based on sound signals, even with zero training - based on the time between keypresses and the unique signature of space/return/backspace you can build a predictor pretty quickly. We never made it to the "bounce a pair of lasers off two window panes a known distance apart and triangulate everyone's keyboard", but it was one of those things that's definitely doable with enough time and brains.

New comment by adrianpike in "Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?"

adrianpike — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:36:22 +0000

Those geostationary sats sound really interesting, but I've struggled to find any remotely modern tools or DB's to find visible sats - is there a current best of breed I can look at?

New comment by adrianpike in "Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript"

adrianpike — Mon, 13 May 2024 15:29:18 +0000

I've also had my email posted in mailto's in a half dozen places for... a long time. I remember in the early 00's when I'd cargo cult the old "type the whole email out as adrian at adrianpike dot com" thing on forums thinking it would work as some mystical talisman, and it turns out considering emails to be secret isn't worth the time.

New comment by adrianpike in "Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program"

adrianpike — Tue, 07 May 2024 03:43:55 +0000

Funny story, I wound up finding a bunch of my old Mac-formatted Zip disks a few months ago, and trying to extract data off of them was a wild, tangled mess of external SCSI enclosures, `ddrescue`, and then quick archiving it up onto the NAS before the drive or disk started making the famous clicking noises. Blows my mind we lived like that.

New comment by adrianpike in "Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries"

adrianpike — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:20:46 +0000

The ones I've seen usually just spam the spectrum with noise, since it's easiest and totally effective, and there's no need for them be sneaky or clever with their emissions since it's very very rare the victim would have a way to notice, and you don't need more than a few watts.

New comment by adrianpike in "Multifault earthquake threat for Seattle region revealed by mass tree mortality"

adrianpike — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:22:57 +0000

I'd love to find any actual FEMA publications that back up some of the numbers and claims - so far to the best I can tell is it's mostly from interviews with the regional director, which, while valuable, isn't quite at the level of citation I'd like. If anyone's got a PDF I'd love to retract all my critiques though. :)

New comment by adrianpike in "Multifault earthquake threat for Seattle region revealed by mass tree mortality"

adrianpike — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:21:28 +0000

Thanks for jumping in with your experience - every time the New Yorker article makes the rounds, I do a little light digging to try and find some sources the author based it on. Reading through some of Goldfinger's publications will help unlock a bit more, thank you!

New comment by adrianpike in "Multifault earthquake threat for Seattle region revealed by mass tree mortality"

adrianpike — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 03:51:24 +0000

Freshwater availability is a big factor that swings in the PNW's favor.

New comment by adrianpike in "Multifault earthquake threat for Seattle region revealed by mass tree mortality"

adrianpike — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 03:50:24 +0000

That New Yorker article goes viral every few years - it's a well written piece and spins a great yarn, but there's some significant hyperbole and it's sources don't quite back up the claims. Yes, a 9.x will be devastating. No, everything west of i-5 will not be toast.